Bag-holding appliance.



W. F. TWDMBLY. BAG HOLDHIG APPLIANCE. APPLIATION FILED Nov. 3,1908.

913,586, Patented Feb. 23, 1909.v

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B AG-HOLDINGIAPPLIANCE Application led November 3, 1908.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Feb. 23, 1909.

Serial No. 460,992.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. TwoMBLY, a citizen of the United States,residing at I-Iebron, in the county of Adair and State of Iowa, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Bag-Holding Appliances;and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as wili enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in bag holdingappliances and more particularly to that class adapted to be used forholding paper bags and my object is to provide a device of this classwhereby a number of bags of different kinds and lengths may be supportedin convenient reach and maintained in assorted bunches.

A further object is to provide means lor holding said bags againstcasual removal from the holding appliance and a still further object isto provide means for increasing or decreasing the capacity ot theholding appliance.

@ther objects and advantages will be hereinafter referred to and moreparticularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings which are I made a part of thisapplication, Figure 1 is an elevation of the bag-holding appliance, asapplied to use. Fig. 2 is a detail view of a portion of one end of theappliance as seen en line 2-2, Fig. 1, and, Fig. 3 is a detailperspective view ol one of the holders removed.

Referring to the drawings in which similar reference numerals designatecorresponding parts throughout the several views, 1 indicates the mainbar of my improved holding device, which is preferably constructed froman oblong flat piece of metal and has secured to its opposite faces andadjacent its upper end,loops 2, the upper end of the bar 1 having anopening therein through which extends a threaded rod 3, the bar 1 beingheld substantially at the longitudinal center of the rod 3 by means ofjam nuts 4.

The ends of the rods 3 extend through brackets 5, which brackets are'fixed to the ends of the loops 2, the rod being held securely to thebrackets by means of jam nuts 6 placed at opposite sides of the bracket.

The lower end of the bar 1 is slitted and the two portions thusprovided, bent in opposite directions from cach other and at rightangles to the longitudinal trend of the bar l to form rests 7 lor bagsS, and in order to support plurality ol bags, a number of auxiliary ba's are suspended from the rod at each side ot' the main bar, saidauxiliary bars extending through the loops and having their lower endsbent at right angles to liorin rests similar' to the rests on the mainbar l, each succeeding auxiliary bar being shorter than the preceding lar to accommodate bags of varying lengths and by properly the lengths olthe auxiliary bars with respect to the main bar, the tojs el the bagswill be maintained at a uniform height.

'the bags are held in position on their respective rests by providingeach bar with a cross arm 10, the ends oi which cross arms are providedwith extensions 1], which extensions are placed at right angles to thetrend ol thc cross arms and are adapted to extend along` the edges ofthe bags snpilxorted by the rests 7 and i).

The bags are held against casual displacement or removal from theholding appliance by suspending a clamping` plate l2 from the rod 3 oneat each side oi the series of auxiliary bars, the lower ends of theclamping plates being held in engagement with the outermost set ol" bagsby means of weights 13, which weights are secured to the outer ends ofShanks 14, the inner ends ol said shanks being secured to the clampingplates 13.

The shanks 14 are of such lengths as to dispose the weights beyond thebrackets 5, said shanks passing through elongated slots 15 in thebrackets 5, by which means the shanks and weights thereon are retainedin proper alinement.

In placing the bags on the holding appliance, the nuts 16 employed lorholding the clamping plates 12 in position to engage the bags, areturned towards the outer ends ot the rod 3 and the clamping plates movedaway 'from the auxiliary bars 9 and the aux iliary bars are likewisemoved away lrom the main bai' 1 when a plurality of the largest sizedbags are placed on the rests 7 at the lower end of the main bar andbetween the extensions 1l, on said bar.

The auxiliary bars closest to the main bar are then moved inwardly untilthey rest against the bags already in position, when a bunch oi bagsnext in size to the largest bags is placed on the auxiliary bars sopositioned and so on until all of the auxiliary bars are supplied withbags, or as many as there are dilerent sized bags to be accommodated.

As soon as all of the bags have been properly placed in position, theclamping plates l2 are moved inwardly and into engagement with theoutermostl bunch of bags when the nuts 16 are turned inwardly on the rod3 until the upper ends of the clamping plates are engaged. l

As the clamping plates l2 are loosely mounted on the rod 3, the weights13 will direct inward pressure on the plates l2 and cause the lower endsthereof to bind against the bags to such an extent as to require a firmpull to remove any one of the bags from its respective position.

The distance between each succeeding rest 7 is such as will permit thebottom portion of the bag to be swung outwardly and given a downwardpull to remove the same from the holding appliance and as soon as thesupply of bags on. any one of the rests l been exhausted, a new supplycan be introduced by swinging the lower ends of the auxiliary barsoutwardly or away from the bar to be supplied with the bags and byproperly arranging the weights, they will maintain the pressure on theclamping plates until such time as all of the bags are exhausted.

The brackets 5 are preferably extended distance above the rod 3 andprovided with openings 17 through which may be disposed any suitableform of device for suspending the bag holding appliance above a counteror in position to be readily accessible.

l/Vhat I claim is:

l. ln a bag holding appliance, the com \ination with a main bar havingrests at its lower end, a plurality of auxiliary bars at each side ofthe main bar, each of said auxiliary bars having a rest at its lower endand means to suspend said bars; of clamping plates and means to directinward pre'ssure i i l l l l l l l l l l l l on the clamping plates,whereby objects supported by said bars will be held against casualdisplacement.

2. ln a bag-holding appliance, the combination with a main bar havingoppositely disposed rests at its lower end and a supporting rod for saidbars, of a plurality of auxiliary bars at each side of said main bar andsuspended from said rod, each of said auxiliary bars having a rest atits lower end, said rests being adapted to support bags and means toapply pressure on the bags whereby they will be hold against casualdisplacenent.

3. ln bag holding appliance, the combination .with a plurality ofsuspended bars having rests at their lower ends, said bars decreasing inlength from the central bar outwardly, loops carried by the central bar,through which the remainder of the bars extend, clamping plates at eachside of the series of bars and means to direct inward pressure on saidclamping plates, whereby objects carried by the bars will be heldagainst casual displacement.

4t. ln a bag holding appliance, the combination with a main bar, loopscarried by said main bar, a supporting rod for said bar and moans to fixthe bar in position on the rod g of a plurality of auxiliary bars ateach side of the main bar, each auxiliary bar being of less length thanthe preceding bar from the central outwardly, all of said bars havingrests at their lower ends adapted to support bags, means on said bars tohold said bags against lateral movement and additional means to directpressure on the bags and hold said bags against casual displacement.

ln testimony whereof l have signed my naine to this speci'lication inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WlLLllll FllllDltlCK TWHBLY. lfitnesses:

E. GRACE KEITH, N. O. lnnsn.

